Cancelled Clancy event becomes example of censorship at U.S. Senate hearing

By: Jordan Hansen

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: April 6, 2026

Words: 871

Last Updated: 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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At a Democrat-led Congressional hearing in late February, children’s author and former TV writer Bess Kalb used a previously unreported incident in Clancy where she had to cancel a book reading event to illustrate a point about the broader impacts of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on the First Amendment.

Saying on Feb. 24 it was the first time she was speaking about it publicly, Kalb stated a book reading event at a school …

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